Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs MiniMax-01

Gemini 3.7 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

MiniMax-01 MiniMax

32.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 70.1 to 21.7.
  • MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 Flash and MiniMax-01 specifications
Gemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index59.832.8
Released2026-08-13—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K900K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$1.10
Results tracked442

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 55.7 (#19), MiniMax-01: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1593—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—
LMArena Coding1499—
ALE-Bench904.3—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.2 (#18), MiniMax-01: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.1 (#12), MiniMax-01: 21.7

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—42.5%
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1497—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench96.8%—
LMCA50.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.72—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.5 (#18), MiniMax-01: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1511—

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.8 (#4), MiniMax-01: 33.1

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
GPQA Diamond94.8%—
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
Confabulations—23.9%
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 36.9 (#69), MiniMax-01: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.8 (#7), MiniMax-01: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Non-English1485—
LMArena Chinese1553—
LMArena French1512—
LMArena German1485—
LMArena Japanese1506—
LMArena Korean1486—
LMArena Russian1519—
LMArena Spanish1507—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 78.0 (#12), MiniMax-01: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Instruction Following1486—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.8 (#28), MiniMax-01: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Longer Query1493—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.4 (#19), MiniMax-01: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Text1487—
LMArena Creative Writing1490—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—
LMArena Multi-Turn1495—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than MiniMax-01?

Gemini 3.7 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or MiniMax-01?

MiniMax-01 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and MiniMax-01 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-01 has 2.

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